Photography on Flo's Thoughts

How Your Camera Works

Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:23:32 +0200

Daniel Eggert, objc.io issue #21:

Let’s say you’re outside and looking around you. The sun, 150 million kilometers away, is emitting photons. These travel from the sun to our cozy planet in about eight minutes. Some of these photons hit the things around you and get reflected and hit the retina inside your eyes, and this triggers your brain to create an image, a visual representation of your surroundings.

What an amazing article about the basics of digital photography. The author explains basic terms in an easy to understand manner and points out, how all those pieces work together to generate the the images we see on the back of our cameras (or on the front of our phones, nowadays.) I highly recommend checking this out if you want to gain a basic understanding of what’s going on inside these tiny boxes we use every day.

My Approach to Sync Lightroom Across Multiple Computers

Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:00:00 +0200

Adobe’s Lightroom is my go-to application when it comes to photo management and manipulation. It’s just great in most regards. Unfortunately, it does not play very well when you want to use it on multiple computers. There is no such thing as a server component nor is there an option to just store everything on your server and open it from your local machine. Lightroom will reject any attempt to open any catalogue from a network location.

Experimenting With Light

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:01:44 +0200

Ever since I heard Boris talk about something called Strobist on the German show Happy Shooting I wanted to try it out myself. It’s basically a method to take photos using untethered flashes. So I started reading David Hobby’s series of articles collected in the Lightning 101.

Drea behind our purple curtains with the light setup in the foreground.

To get started, I got the Yongnuo RF-602 wireless flash trigger, a light stand, a swivel and an umbrella. I was not able to find the equipment suggested by David (back in 2006) in Germany so I got similar, inexpensive stuff.

Classics in LEGO

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:02:36 +0200

I just came across this Flickr photo set. So great!